James Hough
Sir James "Jim" Hough , OBE (born August 6, 1945 ) is a Scottish physicist who deals with the experimental search for gravitational waves . He holds the Kelvin Chair in Physics at the University of Glasgow , where he was Director of the Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR) from 2002 to 2009 and is its Deputy Director.
Hough studied at the University of Glasgow and became Professor of Experimental Physics there in 1986. In 2009 he became Kelvin Professor of Natural Philosophy . He has now retired. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde .
He is known for experimental research on the discovery of gravitational waves, at the GEO600 (co-leader from the British side), a German-British joint facility in Hanover, and at the Advanced Ligo in the USA and its planned space project.
In 1991 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 2003 of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society . In 1991 he and Karsten Danzmann received the Max Planck Research Award . In 1983 he was a Fellow of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics . In 2008 he received the Gunning Victoria Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 2004 the Duddell Prize of the Institute of Physics. In 2010 he received the Herschel Medal , in 2018 the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Edison Volta Prize . Hough was selected as the 2020 Bakerian Lecturer .
He is CEO of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) and is the initiator and director of a partnership between the Max Planck Society and five Scottish universities, the first such international cooperation between the Max Planck Society. The partnership is in the field of precision measurements in quantum physics and quantum information theory. He is a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council and the Council of the Institute of Physics , of which he chairs the Education Committee for Scotland and of which he became a Fellow in 1993.
In 2013 he became OBE . He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001, the Society for General Relativity and Gravitation in 2010 and the Royal Society of Arts in 2012 .
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- with Sheila Rowan: Gravitational Wave Detection by Interferometry (Ground and Space) , Living Reviews in Relativity, 2000, 2011
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hough, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hough, JIm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |